Stuart Rock

Stuart Rock has been a multiple award-winning business editor and writer for the past 25 years. He is increasingly involved in the UK business angel scene as editorial consultant and event moderator for the UK Business Angels Association and as an angel investor.

He has entrepreneurial and boardroom experience having co-founded Caspian Media, where he was the editorial director. He was the founding editor of Real Business, the UK’s first title for entrepreneurs and growth companies, and co-created Real Deals, Europe’s leading private equity title. He led the creation of the CBI magazine Business Voice and the transformation of Professional Engineer, the title of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).

He has also been behind the creation of many national and international business awards and conferences, many of which he has also hosted and compered. These include the Growing Business Awards, the First Women Awards and the Private Equity Awards.


Stuart has developed customer magazines, specialist publications and multimedia content programmes for many blue-chip corporations, including IBM, Vodafone, Lloyds Banking Group, Thales, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Microsoft.


He has edited three books with John Timpson, chairman of Timpson Ltd: Dear James, Cobbled Together, How to Ride a Giraffe


Prior to co-founding Caspian, he was editor of Director magazine for seven years. A graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford, his passion for clear and informative business writing is matched only by his love of real ale, church architecture and Liverpool Football Club.